Garment hanger



May 5, 1942; c. A. lsAAcsoN GARMENT HANGER 3 Sheets-Sheet l Filed Jan. 2l, 1941 May 5, 1942. c. A. lsAAcsoN GARMENT HANGER Filed Jan. 2 1, 1941 3 Sheets-Sheet 2 May 5, 1942. c. A. lsAAcsoN GARMENT HANGER Filed Jan. 21, .1941

3 Sheets-Sheet 3 Patented May 5, 1942 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 8 Claims.

My present invention provides an extremely simple and highly eiiicient garment hanger adapted for hanging of various garments but particularly designed and especially adapted for properly hanging rnens trousers and ladies skirts.

Generally stated, the invention consists of the novel devices, combinations of devices and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims.

In its simplest form the improved garment hanger includes three important elements, to wit: a long coiled spring, a pair of overlapping bars extended through and guided by said spring, and a hanger hook applied between the bars and through the spring at the central portion thereof.

In this simplest arrangement, the continuous spring is made to operate in two sections or parts much as if two aligned coiled springs were anchored to the hook or hanger device at their inner or abutting ends. However, the continuous single spring is the most desirable and in many ways the preferred arrangement.

To increase the holding action of the hanger the bars, at their projecting ends, are provided with downturned head-forming arms. As a further and highly important feature, one of these downturned head-forming arms is bent upon itself to form substantially parallel clamping members that afford a yielding clamping fork into which the inwardly folded flaps of a pair of trousers or of a skirt may be inserted to not only afford an additional holding means, but to hold the trousers in better formation for hanging.

Two commercial forms of the improved hanger are illustrated in the accompanying drawings wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings:

Fig. l shows the improved hanger in side elevation and shows in section the upper portion of a pair of trousers properly applied to and hung on the hanger;

Fig. 2 is a plan View of the parts shown in Fig. 1, some portions being broken away;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the hanger showing the same compressed or forced into shortest condition, some portions of the hanger being broken away;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view, partly in plan and partly in horizontal section, taken approximately on the line 4 4 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary section taken on the line 5-5 of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is an elevation looking at the hanger shown in Fig. 3 in a direction from right toward the left;

Fig 7 is a fragmentary section taken approximately on the line I-l of Fig. 1;

Fig. 8 is a modification of the hanger in which the forked clamping end is not provided;

Fig. 9 is a side elevation illustrating a still further modied form of the invention, some parts being broken away;

Fig. 1-0 is a plan View of the hanger shown in Fig. 9; and

Fig. 11 is an enlarged section taken on the line II-II of Fig. 9.

Referring first to the structure illustrated in Figs. 1 to 7, inclusive, the numeral I0 indicates the ilat overlapping bars that are telescoped within and guided by a long coiled spring II. At their ends these bars are provided with depending head-forming arms I2. At its extereme outer ends the spring II is preferably tightly coiled together, as shown at I3, and adjacent thereto the bars I0 are offset to form shoulders I 4. Not far from their inner ends the bars I0 are offset to form inner shoulders I5 that perform important functions presently to appear. The ends of the bars IIJ, beyond the shoulders I5, are offset so that they engage the bodies of overlapped bars, as best shown in Fig. 4.

The suspending element of the complete hanger is preferably in the form of a heavy wire hook I6 that is adapted to be hung over a pole or on a bracket. The depending end of this hook I6 is bent upon itself to form a U-shaped grip Il that is inserted through the intermediate coils of the spring II at a place between the bars and between the inner stop shoulders I4 of the bars III. The preferred manner of applying this hanger hook, as just described, will be discussed later on, but here it will be noted that the U-shaped portion I'I of the hanger hook is thereby anchored to the intermediate portion of the spring and is located between the spaced portions of the two bars I0 so that it will prevent rotation of the bars within the spring.

In this preferred form of the hanger the depending head-forming arms I2 are preferably telescoped through rubber tubes that increase the frictional holding capacity thereof against the garment. In the complete and preferred form of the device, one of the arms I2 is bent upon itself to form a loop IZa, the outer prong IZb of which is downwardly bent and extended approximately parallel to the body of the arm I2 so as to form therewith a spring fork as and for the purpose above stated.

In Figs. l and 2 the character A indicates a pair of mens trousers and the character indicates the inwardly folded flaps of the trousers which are forced between the spring fork-forming elements l2 and lZb. In applying this preferred form of the device to trousers or a skirt, the inwardly folded portions are preferably first applied between the said fork-forming elements and then the other end of the hanger will be engaged with the back folded portion of the garment and the spring ll released so as to hold a band portion of the garment extended and the garment securely held in condition to prevent wrinkling thereof.

The preferred manner of assembling the parts of the hanger will be as follows: The pointed free ends of the two bars will be forced inwardly through certain of the tight end `coils 'I3 and thence telescoped through the coiled spring in overlapped arrangement, and then the hanger hook or element will be applied. This latter noted operation may be accomplished in different ways but can be easily accomplished as follows: Before the ,U-.shaped anchoring end il of the hoolr is forced together, as shown in the drawings, the extended hook end of the bar can be threaded through the coils of the spring and then the said U-shaped .portion Il can be pressed closely together, as shown in the drawings.

Obviously, when the rspring Il is released, it

Will extend the two bars until the shoulders l5 thereof are brought against the U-shaped portion il of the hanger hook, as shown in Fig. 4.

Fig. 8 shows the simpler form of the garment hanger which is especially adapted for hanging skirts, such as indicated by the character B. In this arrangement shown in Fig. 8, both bars, at their ends, are provided with depending headforming arms vI3 shown as kcovered with sections of rubber tubing i9.

In the structure shown in Figs. 1 to 8, inclusive, the cylindrically coiled spring acts under compression, but in the modification illustrated in Figs. 9, l0 and 11, the spring acts in tension with a force tending to extend the overlapping bars.

In this last noted modification, the overlapping bars are inserted through cylindrically coiled spring 2-I` that is initially closely wound and is stretched under tension when the bars are forced into increased lapping position by application of the hanger to a pair of trousers or to a skirt. The ends of the bars 20 are downwardly bent to form arms 22 preferably covered with rubber tubing 23. The bars 2i] are bent to form eyelets or hooks 24 to which the outer ends of the spring 2| are anchored. The hanger hook 2'5, at its lower end, is passed between the intermediate or central coils of the spring 2l and is looped and passed around one of the bars and thus affords means for anchoring the intermediate portion of the spring to the hook. Preferably the bars 2Q, at their intermediate portions are bent to form stop shoulders or offsets 26 that will enge ge the looped lower end a of the `hook 25 to prevent the 4hook from being forced in one or the other direction far enough to strain the spring beyond its limit of elasticity. In Fig. 9 the character C indicates a garment such `as a ladies skirt,

In this specification I have used the expression cylindrically ycoiled spring structure to include not only a continuous coil, but axially aligned coiled sections arranged to operate in the manner described in connection with the continuous or one-piece coil. The term hanger hook is also used in a liberal sense to include the element that is adapted to support the garment hanger proper from a hook, bar or the like.

From the foregoing it will be evident that various other alterations in the details of construee tion and arrangement of parts may be made within the spirit of the invention here disclosed and claimed.

What I claim is:

l. A garment-l hanger involving a coiled spring structure, a pair of overlapping bars telescoped through said spring structure, and a hanger hook attached to the intermediate portion of said spring structure and to said bars but permitting sliding movements of said bars, said spring structure exerting force tending to extend the bars.

2. A garment hanger involving a coiled spring structure, a pair of overlapping bars telescoped through said spring structure, and a hanger hook attached to the intermediate portion of said spring structure and to said bars but permitting sliding movements of said bars, said spring sti-ncn ture exerting force tending to extend the bars, said bars, at their inner end portions, having offset bends affording stop shoulders engageable with the base of said hook to limit the projecting movements of said bars.

3. A garment hanger `involving a coiled spring structure, a pair of overlapping bars telescoped through said spring structure, and a hanger hook attached to the intermediate portion of said spring structure and to said bars but permitting sliding movements of said bars, .said spring strucu ture exerting force tending to extend the bars, said bars, at their inner end portics, having offset bends affording stop shoulders engageable with the base of said hook to limit the projecting movements of said bars, said bars, at their outer ends, having offset bends forming shoulders against which the outer ends of said spring structure react.

,4. The structure dened in. claim l in which said spring structure is a continuous cylindrically coiled spring to the central portion of which the base of said hook is attached.

5. The structure defined in claim 2 in which said spring structure is a continuous cylindrically coiled spring to the central portion of which the base of said hook is'attached.

6. The structure defined in claim 3 in which said spring structure is a continuous cylindrically coiled spring to the central portion of which the base of said hook is attached.

7. The structure defined in claim l in which the base of said hanger hook is U-shaped and is passed through coils of said spring structure and between overlapping portions of said bars at a place between the inner stop shoulders of the latter.

8. The structure defined in claim l in which said bars, at their outer ends, have downturned head-forming arms.

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X ISAACSON. mark CARL A.

Witness to mark:

VIRGINIA S. BRADY. 

